Helen Whitehouse reports: Confidential documents detailing the backgrounds of hundreds of people have gone missing following an office upgrade blunder. Bungling Contractors threw out a locked filing cabinet containing up to 500 Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates for people who had applied to become registered managers and providers. The error, which happened during the…
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Texas physicians group notifies patients of unauthorized disclosure
It seems like a previously reported incident involved Dr. Mario Gross also impacted Premier Family Care I, Inc. in TX. They notified HHS on July 20 that 1,326 patients were affected. The notice was posted on Premier Physicians’ site. Premier Physicians Notifies Patients of Records Security Incident MIDLAND, TX – June 7, 2016 – Premier…
Sunbury Plaza Dental notifies patients after stored records were burglarized
Sunbury Plaza Dental in Ohio has notified HHS of a breach that impacted 7,784 patients. Their public notice explains that on May 25, they were notified by local law enforcement that their secured storage unit containing business records had been burglarized sometime between March 10th and March 20, 2016. We were not aware of any…
Wyoming officials investigate medical office documents
It sounds like something broke down somewhere in the disposal of 96 boxes of medical office documents found in a dumpster, but it’s not yet clear who’s responsible. The Wyoming Board of Medicine reported Monday that medical office documents from College Hill Health Center have been retrieved but the board has not had a chance…
UK ‘Serious Incident’: East Riding patients medical records lost by company paid to keep them safe
As reported in the Hull Daily Mail: Medical records for patients in the East Riding have been lost by a firm paid by health bosses to keep them safe in storage. East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has launched an investigation after discovering paper records had gone missing. […] She said: “The storage company commissioned to…
Still ignoring the smaller paper breaches? Stop.
Add this to your “small breaches, big impact” analyses. As seen on the New Zealand Herald: A doctor’s office disclosed a patient’s childhood abuse when a letter was sent to the person’s neighbour accidentally. The incident happened when the patient told their GP about past abuse, who referred them on to counselling to help work…